Titus Appalius Alfinus Secundus

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Titus Appalius Alfinus Secundus (full name form Titus Appalius Titi filius Velina Alfinus Secundus ) was a member of the Roman knighthood ( eques ) living in the 2nd century AD . Individual stations of his career are known through an honorary inscription from Fermo , which stretched from the 20s or 30s to the 50s of the 2nd century.

Life

Alfinus Secundus came from Firmum Picenum , today's Fermo, and was inscribed in the Tribus Velina . The honorary inscription, which was put up for him on the basis of a resolution of the local decurions , shows that he held several offices in his hometown. He twice exercised a kind of mayor's office, the Duumvirat , and took on both the function of a priest ( Flemish ) for the deified members of the imperial family and that of an augur ( flamini divorum omnium auguri ). In addition, he was the patron saint of his hometown ( patrono coloniae ). Most of these activities he practiced probably before his military career; however, he could have assumed the position of patron of the city at a later date.

After working in these civil offices, his military career followed. It consisted of the usual tres militiae for a member of the equestrian order ; in his case it was three consecutive posts as commanders of auxiliary forces . First, as prefect , he took over the management of the Cohors IV Gallorum , which was stationed in the province of Raetia . He then became the tribune of the Cohors I Aelia Brittonum in the neighboring province of Noricum . The conclusion formed the command as prefect of the Ala I Augusta Thracum , which was also stationed in Noricum.

Then Alfinus Secundus became deputy commander of the fleet stationed in Ravenna ( subpraefecto classis praetoriae Ravennatis ). This post was associated with an annual income of 60,000 sesterces . The next level was head of the Cursus publicus ( praefecto vehiculorum ) with an annual income of 100,000 sesterces. He then became governor of the province of Alpes Graiae (also known as Alpes Atrectionae ) with the same annual income. As the last step in his career, he was appointed administrator of the inheritance tax ( procuratori Augusti XX hereditatium ), with an annual income of 200,000 sesterces.

Fixed dating approaches for individual offices are not available. The governorship in the province of Alpes Graiae can be located in the period between 138 and 150. The beginning of the military career falls, depending on how long Alfinus Secundus held the individual posts, in the 20s or 30s of the 2nd century; the last held offices can be dated to the 1950s.

family

Nothing is known about the ancestors of the Alfinus Secundus. His son was adopted in his will by the Praetorian prefect Marcus Gavius ​​Maximus , who thus apparently had close ties to the family of Alfinius Secundus. After the adoption, his son took the name Marcus Gavius ​​Titi filius Velina Appalius Maximus and rose from the knighthood ( ordo equester ) to the senatorial class ( ordo senatorius ) through adoption . In the course of his senatorial career, the son made it to the governor of the province of Gallia Narbonensis .

It is believed that the career of Alfinus Secundus himself was promoted by Marcus Gavius ​​Maximus. Presumably this gave him the opportunity to pursue the knightly career up to relatively high posts, moreover in positions for which he never had to stray particularly far from Italy. The end of the Praetorian prefecture of Marcus Gavius ​​Maximus could have been a reason for the end of the career of Titus Appalius Alfinus Secundus in the 150s (as far as it can still be reconstructed from the one preserved inscription).

literature

  • Hubert Devijver : Prosopographia militiarum equestrium quae fuerunt from Augusto ad Gallienum (= Symbolae. Row A, Volume 3). Volume 1, Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven 1976, ISBN 90-6186-046-6 , pp. 116 f., No. A 153.
  • Joachim Ott: The commanders of the Norican auxiliaries. In: Tyche . Contributions to ancient history, papyrology and epigraphy, Volume 10, 1995, pp. 107-138 ( PDF ).
  • Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire Romain (= Institut Français d'Archéologie de Beyrouth. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique. Volume 57). Volume 1, Paul Geuthner, Paris 1960, pp. 341–343, no. 144.
  • Paul von Rohden : Appalius . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 191.
  • Arthur Stein : T. Appalius Alfinus Secundus. In: Edmund Groag , Arthur Stein (Ed.): Prosopographia Imperii Romani . 2nd edition, Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1933, p. 182, No. A 942.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CIL 9, 5357
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Joachim Ott, Die Kommandeure, pp. 121–122.
  3. ^ Gerold Walser : Via per Alpes Graias. Contributions to the history of the Little St. Bernhard Pass in Roman times (= Historia individual writings. Issue 48). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04541-4 , p. 24.
  4. ↑ On this adoption see Olli Salomies : Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire (= Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum. Volume 97). Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki 1992, ISBN 951-653-242-X , p. 28.
  5. ↑ CIL 14, 2607
  6. ^ Hans-Georg Pflaum: Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire Romain. Volume 1, Paul Geuthner, Paris 1960, p. 343, no.144.
personal data
SURNAME Appalius Alfinus Secundus, Titus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Titus Appalius Titi filius Velina Alfinus Secundus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman officer (imperial era)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
PLACE OF BIRTH Firmum Picenum
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century